Large crowds gathered at the landmark Obelisk in central Buenos Aires to pay tribute to Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona, who died of a heart attack Wednesday at age 60. https://t.co/Yw3quUCgRH pic.twitter.com/UUTb9b4Z11

— ABC News (@ABC) November 26, 2020

“If I die, I want to be reborn and I want to be a footballer… and I want to be Diego Armando Maradona again”

Our front page is dedicated to the late, great Diego Maradona tomorrow

📰💙🔟https://t.co/2QGxeF9iyS pic.twitter.com/rbPQcWh1a6

— MARCA in English (@MARCAinENGLISH) November 26, 2020

You may be gone, but your memory forever lives in our hearts❤
RIP Legend Maradona

2020 has indeed been a terrible year. pic.twitter.com/lSNLWSJEh1

— Joshtical (@JoshTical) November 25, 2020

Thursday's Italian #Calcio headlines in English https://t.co/JNLCLtpaqS #Maradona #D10S #Napoli #Argentina pic.twitter.com/LK2HDz3jgX

— footballitalia (@footballitalia) November 26, 2020

'Goodbye Maradona' [md] pic.twitter.com/Tr8MzHr1Q7

— barcacentre (@barcacentre) November 26, 2020

OPINION | The brilliant highs and tragic lows of soccer genius Diego Maradona, writes Filip Bondyhttps://t.co/24G9CPYvVY

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 26, 2020

If you love football, you love Maradona. A tribute. https://t.co/3Pw7bSvmep

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) November 26, 2020

“Wherever he went world leaders would want a picture with him.”

Film director @asifkapadia, who made a documentary about Maradona, says the Argentinian footballer was “just as famous for what he did off the pitch” as he was for being an an iconic player
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/c88VXBtaBK

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) November 26, 2020

The sport that Diego Maradona illuminated, the one he lifted into an art, was not tarnished by all that he did to himself, @RorySmith writes. If the flaws diminished what Maradona was, they burnished what he represented to those who adored him. https://t.co/lgO1GAHykT

— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) November 26, 2020

How Maradona's 'Hand of God' quote went round the world https://t.co/NmtS5TF87i pic.twitter.com/12aGYtzSH9

— Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) November 26, 2020

translation of that epic commentary for Maradona's goal that will live forever pic.twitter.com/gck81JBvHj

— Albert Pinto (@70sBachchan) November 26, 2020

Maradona met Pope Francis in 2016 after a Vatican-organized Match for Peace.

He thanked Papal for bringing him back to the Church.

Vatican says Pope looks back affectionately on their recent meetings and remembers him in prayers, as he has done in recent days, when he took ill. pic.twitter.com/iXNNuwfZhY

— Dennis O. Adesanoye (@stdennis02) November 25, 2020

Diego Maradona's legend will always live on in Naples.He led Napoli to its only two Serie A titles (1987 and 1990) and raised the spirits of the southern Italian city

by @andrewdampf
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— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) November 25, 2020

All over the world, everyone wanted to meet my friend, Diego Maradona | Ossie Ardiles, his former Argentina team-matehttps://t.co/1XsLgYA4nW

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) November 26, 2020

Not many people remember this, or even knew of this, but Maradona once played for Tottenham.

And he did so in borrowed boots… what a story! 👏 https://t.co/UcGNKpUinn

— SPORTbible (@sportbible) November 26, 2020

Imagine football Twitter looked a bit more like this 😍 #AdiosDiego #Maradona pic.twitter.com/z6SWYGq8fS

— Ciara Nic Sheáin (@Ciara87C) November 26, 2020